The Voyage of the Beagle - Couverture rigide

Darwin, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1434468496 ISBN 13 : 9781434468499

Editeur : Borgo Press, 2008

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Many people who have planned to read The Voyage of the Beagle and been deterred by its length and scientific aspects will find the answer here in a carefully and skillfully abridged edition, cut to half the length, which gives the continuity of text, Darwin's own words, and the observations and episodes that make it memorable as a human document. Here is a classic, the record of an enquiring mind seeking scientific truth. Here is evident the growth of the man. An introductory biography places the importance of this trip in Darwin's life; introductory bits for each chapter provide an analysis of the voyage and its scientific meaning along with the actual text. This work is significant in view of additional material available in the last 35 years, much of it Darwin's own writings, but hitherto unpublished in book form. A bibliography provides not only original sources but additional material for study. --Kirkus Reviews

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who established that all species of life have descended over time from a common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Borgo Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1434468496
• ISBN 13: 9781434468499
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560